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Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: A roadmap

  • Leor Barack
  • , Vitor Cardoso
  • , Samaya Nissanke
  • , Thomas P. Sotiriou
  • , Abbas Askar
  • , Chris Belczynski
  • , Gianfranco Bertone
  • , Edi Bon
  • , Diego Blas
  • , Richard Brito
  • , Tomasz Bulik
  • , Clare Burrage
  • , Christian T. Byrnes
  • , Chiara Caprini
  • , Masha Chernyakova
  • , Piotr Chruściel
  • , Monica Colpi
  • , Valeria Ferrari
  • , Daniele Gaggero
  • , Jonathan Gair
  • Juan García-Bellido, S. F. Hassan, Lavinia Heisenberg, Martin Hendry, Ik Siong Heng, Carlos Herdeiro, Tanja Hinderer, Assaf Horesh, Bradley J. Kavanagh, Bence Kocsis, Michael Kramer, Alexandre Le Tiec, Chiara Mingarelli, Germano Nardini, Gijs Nelemans, Carlos Palenzuela, Paolo Pani, Albino Perego, Edward K. Porter, Elena M. Rossi, Patricia Schmidt, Alberto Sesana, Ulrich Sperhake, Antonio Stamerra, Leo C. Stein, Nicola Tamanini, Thomas M. Tauris, L. Arturo Urena-López, Frederic Vincent, Marta Volonteri, Barry Wardell, Norbert Wex, Kent Yagi, Tiziano Abdelsalhin, Miguel Ángel Aloy, Pau Amaro-Seoane, Lorenzo Annulli, Manuel Arca-Sedda, Ibrahima Bah, Enrico Barausse, Elvis Barakovic, Robert Benkel, Charles L. Bennett, Laura Bernard, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Christopher P.L. Berry, Emanuele Berti, Miguel Bezares, Jose Juan Blanco-Pillado, Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo, Matteo Bonetti, Mateja Bošković, Zeljka Bosnjak, Katja Bricman, Bernd Brügmann, Pedro R. Capelo, Sante Carloni, Pablo Cerdá-Durán, Christos Charmousis, Sylvain Chaty, Aurora Clerici, Andrew Coates, Marta Colleoni, Lucas G. Collodel, Geoffrey Compère, William Cook, Isabel Cordero-Carrión, Miguel Correia, Álvaro De La Cruz-Dombriz, Viktor G. Czinner, Kyriakos Destounis, Kostas Dialektopoulos, Daniela Doneva, Massimo Dotti, Amelia Drew, Christopher Eckner, James Edholm, Roberto Emparan, Recai Erdem, Miguel Ferreira, Pedro G. Ferreira, Andrew Finch, Jose A. Font, Nicola Franchini, Kwinten Fransen, Dmitry Gal'tsov, Apratim Ganguly, Davide Gerosa, Kostas Glampedakis, Andreja Gomboc, Ariel Goobar, Leonardo Gualtieri, Eduardo Guendelman, Francesco Haardt, Troels Harmark, Filip Hejda, Thomas Hertog, Seth Hopper, Sascha Husa, Nada Ihanec, Taishi Ikeda, Amruta Jaodand, Philippe Jetzer, Xisco Jimenez-Forteza, Marc Kamionkowski, David E. Kaplan, Stelios Kazantzidis, Masashi Kimura, Shiho Kobayashi, Kostas Kokkotas, Julian Krolik, Jutta Kunz, Claus Lämmerzahl, Paul Lasky, José P.S. Lemos, Jackson Levi Said, Stefano Liberati, Jorge Lopes, Raimon Luna, Yin Zhe Ma, Elisa Maggio, Alberto Mangiagli, Marina Martinez Montero, Andrea Maselli, Lucio Mayer, Anupam Mazumdar, Christopher Messenger, Brice Ménard, Masato Minamitsuji, Christopher J. Moore, David Mota, Sourabh Nampalliwar, Andrea Nerozzi, David Nichols, Emil Nissimov, Martin Obergaulinger, Niels A. Obers, Roberto Oliveri, George Pappas, Vedad Pasic, Hiranya Peiris, Tanja Petrushevska, Denis Pollney, Geraint Pratten, Nemanja Rakic, Istvan Racz, Miren Radia, Fethi M. Ramazanoǧlu, Antoni Ramos-Buades, Guilherme Raposo, Marek Rogatko, Roxana Rosca-Mead, Dorota Rosinska, Stephan Rosswog, Ester Ruiz-Morales, Mairi Sakellariadou, Nicolás Sanchis-Gual, Om Sharan Salafia, Anuradha Samajdar, Alicia Sintes, Majda Smole, Carlos Sopuerta, Rafael Souza-Lima, Marko Stalevski, Nikolaos Stergioulas, Chris Stevens, Tomas Tamfal, Alejandro Torres-Forné, Sergey Tsygankov, Kivanç İ Ünlütürk, Rosa Valiante, Maarten Van De Meent, José Velhinho, Yosef Verbin, Bert Vercnocke, Daniele Vernieri, Rodrigo Vicente, Vincenzo Vitagliano, Amanda Weltman, Bernard Whiting, Andrew Williamson, Helvi Witek, Aneta Wojnar, Kadri Yakut, Haopeng Yan, Stoycho Yazadjiev, Gabrijela Zaharijas, Miguel Zilhão

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Original languageEnglish
Article number143001
Number of pages178
JournalClassical and Quantum Gravity
Volume36
Issue number14
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 19 Jun 2019

Funding

This article is based upon work from COST Action CA16104 'GWverse', supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). We would like to thank Walter del Pozzo for useful comments. AA acknowledges partial support from the Polish National Science Center (NCN) through the grant UMO-2016/23/B/ST9/02732 and is currently supported by the Carl Tryggers Foundation through the grant CTS 17:113. LB acknowledges support from STFC through Grant No. ST/R00045X/1. VC acknowledges financial support provided under the European Union's H2020 ERC Consolidator Grant 'Matter and strong-field gravity: New frontiers in Einstein's theory' grant agreement no. MaGRaTh-646597. TPS acknowledges partial support from Science and Technology Facilities Council Consolidated Grant ST/P000703/1. KB acknowledges support from the Polish National Science Center (NCN) grant: Sonata Bis 2 (DEC-2012/07/E/ST9/01360). EB acknowledges financial support from projects 176003 and 176001 by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Serbia. TB was supported by the TEAM/2016-3/19 grant from FNP. PC acknowledges support from the Austrian Research Fund (FWF), Project P 29517-N16, and by the Polish National Center of Science (NCN) under grant 2016/21/B/ST1/00940. BK acknowledges support from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme ERC-2014-STG under grant agreement No 638435 (GalNUC) and from the Hungarian National Research, Development, and Innovation Office grant NKFIH KH-125675. GN is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) under grant 200020-168988. PP acknowledges financial support provided under the European Union's H2020 ERC, Starting Grant agreement no. DarkGRA-757480. US acknowledges H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015 Grant No. 690904, NSF Grant No. PHY-090003 and PRACE Tier-0 Grant No. PPFPWG. The Flatiron Institute is supported by the Simons Foundation. PAS acknowledges support from the Ramon y Cajal Programme of the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness of Spain. EB supported by NSF Grants No. PHY-1607130 and AST-1716715. KB, AC, AG, NI, TP and GZ acknowledge financial support from the Slovenian Research Agency. SB acknowledges support by the EU H2020 under ERC Starting Grant, no. BinGraSp-714626. PC-D is supported by the Spanish MINECO (grants AYA2015-66899-C2-1-P and RYC-2015-19074) and the Generalitat Valenciana (PROMETEOII-2014-069). DG is supported by NASA through Einstein Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant No. PF6-170152 by the Chandra X-ray Center, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory for NASA under Contract NAS8-03060. RE acknowledges financial support provided by the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) under the grant no. 117F296. JAF is supported by the Spanish MINECO (AYA2015-66899-C2-1-P), by the Generalitat Valenciana (PROMETEOII-2014-069), and by the H2020-MSCA-RISE-2017 Grant No. FunFiCO-777740. FMR is supported by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) project 117F295. IR was supported by the POLONEZ programme of the National Science Centre of Poland which has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 665778.

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

  • 103028 Theory of relativity
  • 103004 Astrophysics
  • 103012 High energy physics

Keywords

  • gravitational waves
  • gravitational-wave astronomy
  • source modelling
  • black holes
  • fundamental physics
  • birth and evolution of black holes
  • X-RAY BINARIES
  • R-PROCESS NUCLEOSYNTHESIS
  • BRANS-DICKE THEORY
  • STAR CLUSTER SIMULATIONS
  • HIGH-REDSHIFT FORMATION
  • SCALAR-TENSOR THEORIES
  • TIMING ARRAY LIMITS
  • QUASI-NORMAL MODES
  • NEUTRON-STAR
  • GENERAL-RELATIVITY

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